Accustomed as I am to read vituperative comments about me, as some received
this morning, I find it sad that a number of Futureworker subscribers
prefer to think in black-and-white terms.

If I write, for example, that I agreed with Thatcher's policy against
over-powerful trade unions (which, in my home town destroyed several large
industries, because of greed), this doesn't make me a Thatcherite. I
disagreed with a great many of Thatcher's views and decisions, even with
contempt.

The world is complex.  We really cannot afford to think in black-and-white
terms -- labelling individuals irrevocably as being in one camp or another.
This way lies disaster.

We need rational discussion, and if some resort to personal attack then, to
my mind, it shows that they don't have rational arguments.

Keith Hudson


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�Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in
order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow
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Keith Hudson, Bath, England;  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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